apparently we are all rigged so that what we get told first we will defend, especially if it is beneficial, againt all sources of information claiming differently.
Well the lawsuit decision it was extended from was based on the copyright of the product label and a hair conditioning bottle (or something like that). not the trademarks, the design of the label!
sounds abut how i expect apple to deal with thee same issue in their appstore. Kill the server copy and just waith for a firmware update either breaking the app or the customers trying to redownload after a restore or similar. Takes longer but avoids some bad press.
Games are more latency sensitive then bandwidth sensitive, as usually the media data is locally stored and all that is required to send is various updates on location and actions.
Given the scale of the universe, life in general may be as common as insects on earth. But question is if the distances involved makes it unlikely that we will ever be able to communicate, much less meet.
Iirc, earlier chromeos builds had storage devices show up as "tab" on the bottom of the screen. Much in the same way that they have IM sessions show up right now. I wonder if this proved to cumbersome for users once the devices started containing large numbers of files and directories.
And that area specific issue is what EU wants to get into ACTA but USA wants to keep out so that the claim that ACTA do not change US law will be correct.
The thing about Rand is that she fled soviet Russia with her parents, and was anti-communist to the core. As such, i sometimes wonder if she ended up falling for a old flaw in humanity. That flaw is that we never seem to stop when we hit the middle ground, instead we continue full speed to the other side. End result is that we may well excuse acts on the side we "worship" when the same act on the other side would be condemned as inhumane.
I think the problem is that most of the hobby, and perhaps even commercial, programming happens on a "scratch itch" basis. Once it does what the programmer set out to do, the job is done no matter how nasty the code may look. And any language that allows the programmer to get there quickly get instant love. Then there are situations, mostly on the bare metal level tho, where doing things in crazy ways is the only way to get it done.
that is the modern problem of defining a "journalist". At one time one had to own, or work for someone that owned, a printing press that was used to print collections of information about recent events (news).
These day anyone with a computer (and those get smaller and more powerful all the time), and a net connection, can do the same from a park bench as what that bulky mechanical press was required to do. Or for that matter what one needed a bulky camera and transmission gear for maybe a couple of decades ago, transmit live video and/or audio from some event.
The net and the microchip have anyone a potential journalist, and or even a whole newsroom of one. Hell, a recently available head mounted camera, not much larger then a bluetooth ear piece, was cyberpunk fiction in the 80s. These days it is more about getting ones blog article or video stream featured on boingboing, or such, then about getting noticed by some media company.
/.'s summary calls it a theory, when the wired article uses hypothetical. From what i understand, it only becomes a theory once the scientists have run out of other options (meaning, they have failed at breaking the hypothesis).
Humans fear (and by extension, hate) change, especially change that will make everyday life more uncomfortable (until one get used to it).
Ever since the car, and amplified greatly by the mobile phone, long term planning have become a lost art. With the flexibility of the car, travel planning have gone out the window. If something needs to be done across town we just jump into a car and go there rather then schedule it for a day when we have multiple tasks in the area anyways. And lately there have been groans from managers about getting calls 5 mins before a meeting, requesting a reschedule as the caller can't make it that day. This largely thanks to the mobile phone's ability to make that call from anywhere at any time.
And perhaps also consider the number of food items that we buy that will perish in a couple of days if the refrigerator or freezer breaks. This in comparison to the time and effort taken in earlier times to make sure their stockpile of food would not perish via drying, salting, canning and similar.
We no longer prepare for down periods, because we have not experienced a real down period in our lifetime. If electricity cuts out for 24 hours it becomes a national crisis...
Yep, this specific computer is built as specified by Google for use as a test bed of the eventual design specs for the various OEM variants. That the switch is there in this limited production run is not indicative of it being there when the various products start showing up in stores. And as one market area specifically aimed at is office use, i suspect it will not as that would compromise the image of security they are trying to sell.
Before copyright, anyone owning a printing press would scoop up something written and then reproduce it in mass quantities. And this while keeping all the profits of the sale.
Still, there is also the angle that, at least in England, copyright was a continuation of a previous monopoly on printing that the crown had given a small group of printers in London. This provided large profits for the printers, and a ability to censor for the crown (the monarch of the time was a Catholic, in a increasingly protestant nations). One revolution and a new monarch later, and the old censorship law was no more. But the printers wanted to keep their monopoly so they lobbied for a new law. And so one get part of the foundation of todays copyright (the other part came out of France for very different reasons).
Archos 43? Except that it lacks various sensors, so Google will not ok Market being bundled with said device.
Basically, there have been many non-phone Android devices made. But none of them are "Google Android" devices as they lack some requirement or other (before 2.x Google actually required devices to be phones). And it is not a small list. There is accelerometer, compass, gps, camera of a certain minium quality (and with 2.2 and later, bluetooth). I can understand the accelerometer, but the compass, gps and camera is highly individual. But as long as Google makes Market part of their "app pack", rather then being more fine grained (the compass and gps is only really useful when using the location related Google Apps), the problem persists.
The whole Android management is a mess from the word go. When one even manages to get on the bad side of the Linux dev community, you know you have messed up big time.
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or perhaps it is about paying a proper wage for proper work hours.
apparently we are all rigged so that what we get told first we will defend, especially if it is beneficial, againt all sources of information claiming differently.
Well the lawsuit decision it was extended from was based on the copyright of the product label and a hair conditioning bottle (or something like that). not the trademarks, the design of the label!
sounds abut how i expect apple to deal with thee same issue in their appstore. Kill the server copy and just waith for a firmware update either breaking the app or the customers trying to redownload after a restore or similar. Takes longer but avoids some bad press.
gah, true. I blame a caffeine shortage.
What, you expect the LHC to figure a way to go FTL?
i was aiming at the coffee requirements, guess i should have quoted...
Games are more latency sensitive then bandwidth sensitive, as usually the media data is locally stored and all that is required to send is various updates on location and actions.
Given the scale of the universe, life in general may be as common as insects on earth. But question is if the distances involved makes it unlikely that we will ever be able to communicate, much less meet.
Iirc, earlier chromeos builds had storage devices show up as "tab" on the bottom of the screen. Much in the same way that they have IM sessions show up right now. I wonder if this proved to cumbersome for users once the devices started containing large numbers of files and directories.
Brings new meaning to spaghetti code...
And that area specific issue is what EU wants to get into ACTA but USA wants to keep out so that the claim that ACTA do not change US law will be correct.
The thing about Rand is that she fled soviet Russia with her parents, and was anti-communist to the core. As such, i sometimes wonder if she ended up falling for a old flaw in humanity. That flaw is that we never seem to stop when we hit the middle ground, instead we continue full speed to the other side. End result is that we may well excuse acts on the side we "worship" when the same act on the other side would be condemned as inhumane.
Funny thing about Adam Smith is that he actually warned against corporations.
sounds a bit to much like a placebo effect for my taste...
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
I think the problem is that most of the hobby, and perhaps even commercial, programming happens on a "scratch itch" basis. Once it does what the programmer set out to do, the job is done no matter how nasty the code may look. And any language that allows the programmer to get there quickly get instant love. Then there are situations, mostly on the bare metal level tho, where doing things in crazy ways is the only way to get it done.
garbage in, garbage out...
that is the modern problem of defining a "journalist". At one time one had to own, or work for someone that owned, a printing press that was used to print collections of information about recent events (news).
These day anyone with a computer (and those get smaller and more powerful all the time), and a net connection, can do the same from a park bench as what that bulky mechanical press was required to do. Or for that matter what one needed a bulky camera and transmission gear for maybe a couple of decades ago, transmit live video and/or audio from some event.
The net and the microchip have anyone a potential journalist, and or even a whole newsroom of one. Hell, a recently available head mounted camera, not much larger then a bluetooth ear piece, was cyberpunk fiction in the 80s. These days it is more about getting ones blog article or video stream featured on boingboing, or such, then about getting noticed by some media company.
/.'s summary calls it a theory, when the wired article uses hypothetical. From what i understand, it only becomes a theory once the scientists have run out of other options (meaning, they have failed at breaking the hypothesis).
Humans fear (and by extension, hate) change, especially change that will make everyday life more uncomfortable (until one get used to it).
Ever since the car, and amplified greatly by the mobile phone, long term planning have become a lost art. With the flexibility of the car, travel planning have gone out the window. If something needs to be done across town we just jump into a car and go there rather then schedule it for a day when we have multiple tasks in the area anyways. And lately there have been groans from managers about getting calls 5 mins before a meeting, requesting a reschedule as the caller can't make it that day. This largely thanks to the mobile phone's ability to make that call from anywhere at any time.
And perhaps also consider the number of food items that we buy that will perish in a couple of days if the refrigerator or freezer breaks. This in comparison to the time and effort taken in earlier times to make sure their stockpile of food would not perish via drying, salting, canning and similar.
We no longer prepare for down periods, because we have not experienced a real down period in our lifetime. If electricity cuts out for 24 hours it becomes a national crisis...
i don't think there will be that many ot there.
someone linked to a vim plugin/app for chromeos over on twitter...
Yep, this specific computer is built as specified by Google for use as a test bed of the eventual design specs for the various OEM variants. That the switch is there in this limited production run is not indicative of it being there when the various products start showing up in stores. And as one market area specifically aimed at is office use, i suspect it will not as that would compromise the image of security they are trying to sell.
Before copyright, anyone owning a printing press would scoop up something written and then reproduce it in mass quantities. And this while keeping all the profits of the sale.
Still, there is also the angle that, at least in England, copyright was a continuation of a previous monopoly on printing that the crown had given a small group of printers in London. This provided large profits for the printers, and a ability to censor for the crown (the monarch of the time was a Catholic, in a increasingly protestant nations). One revolution and a new monarch later, and the old censorship law was no more. But the printers wanted to keep their monopoly so they lobbied for a new law. And so one get part of the foundation of todays copyright (the other part came out of France for very different reasons).
Archos 43? Except that it lacks various sensors, so Google will not ok Market being bundled with said device.
Basically, there have been many non-phone Android devices made. But none of them are "Google Android" devices as they lack some requirement or other (before 2.x Google actually required devices to be phones). And it is not a small list. There is accelerometer, compass, gps, camera of a certain minium quality (and with 2.2 and later, bluetooth). I can understand the accelerometer, but the compass, gps and camera is highly individual. But as long as Google makes Market part of their "app pack", rather then being more fine grained (the compass and gps is only really useful when using the location related Google Apps), the problem persists.
The whole Android management is a mess from the word go. When one even manages to get on the bad side of the Linux dev community, you know you have messed up big time.